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Bukele
Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez (; born 24 July 1981) is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who has served as the 81st president of El Salvador since 2019. In 1999, Bukele established an advertising company and worked at an advertising company owned by his father, Armando Bukele Kattán. Both companies advertised election campaigns for the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) political party. Bukele entered politics in 2011. In 2012, he joined the FMLN and was elected mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán. Bukele served until his 2015 election as Mayor of San Salvador, where he served until 2018. In 2017, Bukele was ousted from the FMLN. He founded the Nuevas Ideas political party shortly afterward and pursued a presidential 2019 Salvadoran presidential election, campaign in 2019. After the Supreme Electoral Court (El Salvador), Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) refused to register his party, Bukele ran for president with the Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA) and won wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuevas Ideas
Nuevas Ideas (; abbreviated N or NI) is the current ruling political party of El Salvador. The party was founded on 25 October 2017 by Nayib Bukele, the then-mayor of San Salvador, and was registered by the Supreme Electoral Court (El Salvador), Supreme Electoral Court on 21 August 2018. The party's current president is Xavier Zablah Bukele, a cousin of Bukele who has served since March 2020. Since the 2024 Salvadoran general election, 2024 general election, it has been the dominant party in the country, having nearly unanimous control of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, Legislative Assembly and the vast majority of the Municipalities of El Salvador, Municipalities and the Central American Parliament. Although Nuevas Ideas was formed before the 2019 Salvadoran presidential election, 2019 presidential election, it was not legally registered as a political party in time to run a candidate. As such, Bukele ran for president as a member of the Grand Alliance for National U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Rodríguez De Guevara
Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara (born 1980 or 1981) is a Salvadoran accountant who is a former presidential designate and President of El Salvador from 1 December 2023 to 1 June 2024. She assumed presidential powers and duties after President Nayib Bukele was granted a leave of absence by the Legislative Assembly to focus on his 2024 re-election campaign, which some constitutional lawyers have argued violates the country's constitution. Rodríguez served as a finance manager for Bukele both before and during his presidency from 2019 to 2023. In 2021, Rodríguez was appointed as the Director of Municipal Works, and in 2022, she was named as Bukele's private secretary. On 30 November 2023, after granting Bukele and Vice President Félix Ulloa a leave of absence to run for re-election in the 2024 election, Rodríguez was selected by the Legislative Assembly to serve as designated president, a position she assumed the following day. Her appointment as presidential designate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Territorial Control Plan
The Territorial Control Plan (, abbreviated PCT) is an ongoing Salvadoran security and anti-gang program. The program consists of six phases and a potential seventh phase if phases one through six are unsuccessful. In 2019, the Salvadoran government estimated that the Territorial Control Plan would cost US$575.2 million in total. Background Criminal gangs in El Salvador Gang#Street gang, Criminal gangs have been a major problem in El Salvador since the conclusion of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1992. The country's most prominent gangs include MS-13, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18), Mao Mao, Miranda Loca, and La Maquina, among others. Most Salvadoran gangs were formed in the United States; some gangs, such as MS-13, were formed by refugees of the Salvadoran Civil War to protect themselves from Mexican Americans, Mexican American and African Americans, African American gangs, meanwhile, other gangs, such as Barrio 18, formed as splinter gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvadoran Gang Crackdown
A crackdown on gangs began in El Salvador on 27 March 2022 in response to a series of homicides committed by criminal gangs between 25 and 27 March 2022 which killed 87 people. After the killings, the Salvadoran government declared a state of emergency that suspended several constitutional rights and enabled the government to launch mass arrests of suspected gang members. The crackdown and state of emergency have since been extended 37 times . In El Salvador, the crackdown has been called the "State of Exception" () or the "War Against the Gangs" (). , over 85,000 people accused of having gang affiliations have been arrested, which has overcrowded El Salvador's prisons and has led the country to have the highest incarceration rate in the world by 2023. As of 16 May 2023, 5,000 people who were arrested have been released. In January 2023, Minister of Defense René Merino Monroy announced that the government registered 496 homicides in 2022, a 56.8% decrease from 1,147 homicides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Salvadoran Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 3 February 2019, with Salvadorans electing the president and vice president for a five-year term from 2019 to 2024. The election resulted in victory for Nayib Bukele of the right-wing Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA), who received 53%, defeating Carlos Calleja of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), Hugo Martínez of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and Josué Alvarado of the centrist Vamos party. With his victory, Bukele became the first president since José Napoleón Duarte (1984–1989) to not be a member of either ARENA or the FMLN, which had controlled the presidency in a two-party system from 1989 to 2019. Prior to the elections, Bukele held a lead against Calleja, Martínez and Alvarado in virtually every poll conducted between July 2018 and January 2019. A second round in March was rendered unnecessary as Bukele won an outright majority; Bukele won a plurality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Rodríguez De Bukele
Gabriela Roberta Rodríguez de Bukele ( Rodríguez Perezalonso; 31 March 1985) is a Salvadoran educator, prenatal psychologist and the current First Lady of El Salvador, as the wife of the 81st President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. She is also a professional ballet dancer and is part of the dance company Fundación Ballet de El Salvador. Rodríguez was born in San Salvador. She holds a doctorate in prenatal psychology and founded PrePare, the first center for prenatal teaching in El Salvador, in October 2010. She married Bukele in 2014 and served as Secretary for Women during his tenure as Mayor of San Salvador (2015–2018), when she helped to create projects supporting women's rights and culture. Rodríguez founded the San Salvador Ballet group during her time as a Secretary for Women in San Salvador. After Bukele's victory at the 2019 Salvadoran presidential election, Rodríguez was involved in the selection process for the government's cabinet. Early life Gabriela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armando Bukele Kattán
Armando Bukele Kattán (16 December 1944 – 30 November 2015) was a Salvadoran businessman of Palestinian origin, Muslim religious leader, and father of current Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele. Early years Armando Bukele Kattán was born in San Salvador, on 16 December 1944, the son of Humberto Bukele Salman and Victoria Kattán de Bukele. His parents were Palestinian Christians from Bethlehem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire who had emigrated to El Salvador at the beginning of the 20th century as part of an emigration wave. He completed his high school studies at the Liceo Salvadoreño. Education In 1967, Bukele graduated as a doctor in Industrial Chemistry from the University of El Salvador. Entrepreneur Bukele Kattan founded companies dedicated to the textile industry, commerce, pharmaceuticals, advertising and the media. He was also involved with the philanthropic efforts of the Kiwanis Club, a community service institution that brings together entrepreneurs a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabinet Of Nayib Bukele
The cabinet of Nayib Bukele formed on 1 June 2019 to serve as President Nayib Bukele's cabinet from 1 June 2019 until 1 June 2029. List of cabinet members Current cabinet members After Bukele's second inauguration on 1 June 2024, the Salvadoran government announced that all cabinet members would retain their positions until further notice. Former cabinet members See also * Nayib Bukele Notes References {{Cabinet of Nayib Bukele Cabinets established in 2019 2019 establishments in El Salvador Nayib Bukele Current governments in North America, Bukele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Sol
Irma Michelle Martha Ninette Sol Schweikert de Castro (born 20 December 1972), commonly known Michelle Sol, is a Salvadoran politician and businesswoman who currently serves as the minister of housing of El Salvador. She previously served as the mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán from 2015 to 2019, and was a candidate for mayor of La Libertad Este in 2024. Early life Irma Michelle Martha Ninette Sol Schweikert was born on 20 December 1972 in Nuevo Cuscatlán, El Salvador. Sol is a niece of Ana Ligia Mixco Sol de Saca, the first lady of El Salvador from 2004 to 2009. Sol studied at the Excellent Municipal Management School in Madrid, Spain, and the Doctor José Matías Delgado University in San Salvador, El Salvador. She received a degree in municipal legislation from the latter. Sol worked as the marketing and public relations director at Tecnutral, a family business. Political career Mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán During the 2012 municipal elections, Sol was elected as a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Ulloa
Félix Augusto Antonio Ulloa Garay (born 6 April 1951) is a Salvadoran politician, speaker, professor, and lawyer who has served as the Vice President of El Salvador, vice president of El Salvador since 1 June 2019.The CIA World Fact Book: El Salvador Retrieved 9 Feb 2020 Biography Early life Ulloa was born in Chinameca, San Miguel, Chinameca, in the Departments of El Salvador, department of San Miguel Department (El Salvador), San Miguel, on 6 April 1951. His parents were Margarita Garay and , the latter of whom became the rector of the University of El Salvador, where he was killed in an attack carried out by paramilitaries.Education Ulloa obtained a law degree from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, in 1979, a ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Alliance For National Unity
The Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA; ) is a political party in El Salvador. The party established itself on 16 January 2010 and was recognized by the Supreme Electoral Court of El Salvador on 19 May of the same year. The majority of party members came from the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). Originally the defection from ARENA included 12 deputies in the Legislative Assembly, but this number has grown to 16. GANA ranks third in seats in the assembly with 11, after the FMLN's 31 and the ARENA's remaining 28. There have been accusations of ARENA members being bought or blackmailed by the GANA party in order to secure them in their party. GANA has also been accused of multiple cases of corruption. On 1 June 2019, Nayib Bukele under the banner of the GANA party became the first president of El Salvador since José Napoleón Duarte to come from outside of the two major political parties in El Salvador, the ARENA and FMLN. Bukele is also the first president to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Muyshondt
Ernesto Luis Muyshondt García Prieto (born 30 August 1975) is a Salvadoran businessman, politician and member of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party. He served as the mayor of San Salvador, the capital and largest city in El Salvador, from 2018 to 2021. He was previously a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from 2015 until 2018. Biography In 2017, incumbent San Salvador Mayor Nayib Bukele was expelled from the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party. In response, Bukele announced that he would seek a new political party and run for president in the 2019 Salvadoran presidential election. The political upheaval came less than six months before the 2018 Salvadoran municipal elections, when voters would choose a new Mayor of San Salvador. The right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) selected Ernesto Muyshondt, a deputy in the Legislative Assembly, as its candidate. The ruling FMLN, which had held the mayor's office unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
